Applications failing to open

If you are experiencing issues trying to open up applications but nothing is being displayed in the screen, follow the procedure.

1. Open Task Manager (via right click on Desktop toolbar and select Task Manager) or (click on Ctrl + Alt + Del keys and select ‘Task Manager’).
   

1. Once Task Manager is opened, click on button More details. If you can see ‘Processes’ tab, ignore this step.
2. In the processes tab, scroll downwards to check the name of the application that you are trying to open. 
   

1. Once found, select the process (application name) and then click on button ‘End Task’.If there are multiple processes of same application, end all of its session.
   
2. Once all the processes of the application are ended, try re-opening application.
   
3. Application should load up as fine, if not, perform a reboot.
   
4. Reload the application after reboot.

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